Modernism in Late Socialist Art and Architecture

About the event

What do art and architecture created in late socialist regimes tell us about the historical, political, and aesthetic trajectories of modernism? Cultural production from the 1960s and 1970s in Eastern Europe and parts of South America and Africa charted a visual and urban course that did not adhere to the postmodern discourse associated with the 1980s in the capitalist West. Instead, these architects and artists reexamined modernist forms—even formalism itself—on the cusp of great political and economic transition as well as increasing international exchange. Join panelists as they discuss artists and architects whose work provide innovations to our generally held assumptions about modernism.